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JAMES H. TAYLOR, OF GREENVILLE, SOUTH OAROLTN A.

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SPECIFICATION forming part o Letters Patent No. 350,277, dated October5, 1886. Application tiled November 7, 1885. Serial No. 182,112. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JAMES H. TAYLOR, of Greenville, in the county ofGreenville and State of South Carolina, have invented a new and ImprovedTether, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to that class of devices employed to tetheranimals, and its object is, first, to so connect and support the rope bywhich the animal is held that the animal will be given a free, Widerange, but will never be in danger of being caught by slack rope,77 and,second, to so arrange the apparatus that the main strain on the standardwill be at a point very near the ground.

To the above ends the invention consists in certain details ofconstruction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafterdescribed, and speciiically pointedout in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, iu which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the gures.

Figure l is a side view of my tether, the saine being shown partly insection to disclose the construction of the parts; and Fig. 2 is a planview of the apparatus. Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate a modified forni ofconstruction.

A A represent two light foot-beams,that are placed at right angleswtheone to the other, and securely united at their centers to forni thesupporting-base of the tether. Projecting directly up from the center ofthe base formed by the beams A A is a short rigid bolt or post, a, thatforms the pivotal support for the revolving standard B, the lower end ofwhich is socketed at I) to tit over the post or bolt a. In theconstruction shown in Figs. l and 2 the top of the standard B isslotted, and in the slot so formed there is mounted a swinging arm, E,by means of a pin or bolt, c, so that the arm E will turn with thestandard and will oscillate on the bolt c. The short end e of the arm Ecarries a weight, H, and to the long end of the arm. there is secured apulley, my. The tether-rope g is secured to an7 eye, cf, which iscarried by the long end of the arm E, and from its point of attachmentpasses around the pulley k, thence over the pulley m and down to aswivel-ring, d. A pole, F,

is suspended from the ring d, so that two fractious animals or a cow andher suckling calf may be tethered by the same machine. Instead of usinga pole, F, two animals, it they were peaceable, might be tethered by therope q by simply attaching two ropes, as q', of equal length to theswivel-ring d, for the standar-d B revolves so easily that each animalsrope is kept at the same tension, no matter what p0- sit-ion the animalsmay take, provided they have equal lengths of rope from the ring d. Asthe-animal approaches the standard B, the weight H carries up the longend of the arm E, which carries with it the pulley m', and as the animalgoes away from the post the long and ofthe arm E will be pulled down andthe weight H elevated, the range of motion being limited, however, by acheck-cord, w, which may be adj usted as desired. There are severalholes, ou, in the arni E,throughwhich the pin c may be passed to securethe arm to the stand! ard B, and the weight H may be hung at any desireddistance from the end ofthe arm, and thus the tension on the rope q andthe length ofthe range may be regulated. A pin, S, that projects outwardfrom the base ofthe standard B, as shown in Fig. 1, prevents the animalfrom passing between the standard B and the .rope q.

Referring now to the construction shown in Figs. 3 and 4, C is a crossarm that is supported by a brace, D, which extends from the standard Bto the under side of the arm C. The arm C carries four sheaves, e, f, g,and l1, which are mounted in double blocks secured at either end of thearm, and a fifth sheave, carried by lugs 17, is ixed near the base ofthe standard B. A weight, H, to which there is secured a pulley, a, issuspended by means of a cord, p, which passes over the sheaves e and g,and carries a pulley, m, at its free end.

that the weight H will just clear the ground when the pulley mis broughtup against the sheave g.

The cord to which the animal is attached is shown in dotted lines, andis lettered g. This cord q is made fast to the arm C at s, and passesdownward under the sheave of the pulley n,

then up and over the sheaves f and h, then The length of the rope orcord p is so adjusted IOO down to the sheave 7:,up to and over themovable pulley m, and on to the animal that is to be secured by thetether. With this con struction, as the animal draws on the cord q thepulley lm is slightly lowered and the weight H raised, and as the animalaplin'oaehes the standard B the gravity ot the weight H will aet tolower it, and thereby keep the rope q taut, so that the animal raunotbecome entangled in it. The main strain on the standard B will be at itsbase, where the pulley l.' is attached, and l am consequently able tomake the parts light and portable, so that the apparatus can be movedfrom place to place.

In setting up the tether care should be taken to place the base upon alevel surfaee,where it is securely held by spilies'f t, that are driveninto the ground.

Iam aware that a tether has been heretofore constructed with a base, avertical post secured thereto, a horizontallyswinging arm on the topofthe post, pulleys at opposite ends ofthe said arm, and a rope securedat one end to the arni and passed through a pulley on a weight and thenthrough the two pulleys on the swinging arm, and I do not claim thesaine as of my invention. Thetendenry in said construction was for thepost to be pulled over, as the strain was entirely on the upper end ofthe post, whereas in my construction the strain is transferred to thebottom et' the post, where the leverage is very short, and the postwould stand many times the st rain that a. post would where the pulleywas at the top instead of the bottom.

In practire I propose making the pivoted erossbar longer from itspivotal point to the end of its long arm than the length of the standardfrom its base to the pivotal point, so that when the animal ranges tothe extent of the rope the outer end of the long arm of the `pivotedeross'bar will be drawn to the ground t and serve as a brace for thestandard. rlhe outer pulley, m, will be set back somewhat from the endofthe cross-bar, so as not to touch the ground when the end of the baris on the ground.

Having thus described my invention, I elaini as new and desire to secureby Letters 'lateut-- l.. The combination, with the standard l, having apulley, 7.', at its base, a cross-arm at the top of the standard, and aweight and pulley supported from opposite ends of the said arm, of aoord, (j, scoured to the said cross-arm and passed around pulley 7s andthrough the pulley supported frolnthe eross-arm,theweight acting on thecord to draw it taut, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the revolving standard, ot a swinging armweighted at one end and a tgfther-ropc, secured to the nnweighted endot' the swinging arm, passing about a pulley located near the base ofthe standard and over a pulley carried. by the unweighted end of theswinging arm, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the standard IIS, arm l0, formed with holes nt, and carrying weight ll', ol' a rope, q, seeured to the unweighted endof the arm ld and passing about the pulleys 7.: and `mi', substantiallyas described.

4t. The rombinatitm, with the standard ll, arm lil, and weight ll, of arope, q, secured to the unweighted end ol the arm E and passing aboutthe pulleys l.' and m', and having a swir eli-ring, (I. secured toitsend, substzmtially as described.

The rombiuattion, with the standard 113, arm E, weight ll', and a rope,q, secured to the unweighted end et' the arm lil and passing about thepulleys 7; and Imy', et' a swivel-ring, d, and a pole, F, substantiallyas deseribed.

YTAMISS ll. TAYLOR.

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